ankle
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They won 23-16 at Tampa Bay despite losing receiver Justin Jefferson to an early ankle injury.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The year before that, Palmer said, Mosley played through a high ankle injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I have one on my inner ankle, one on my forearm, one on my collarbone, one on my lower back of a cat reading ‘Bunny’ and one on my thigh,” Grondine says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The rookie is questionable for this game because of an ankle injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Then she crosses one leg over the other and swings her ankle back and forth, back and forth, which makes me feel even more nervous than I already was.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Researchers from The Ohio State University studied wild sooty mangabey monkeys, whose feet do not have the same highly flexible ankles found in chimpanzees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
“There’s indecision, and catching a baseball at your ankles kind of speaks to where his head is at right now,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
On a beach in southern Romania, a few metres from the Danube shore, a boy sloshed his bare feet through water that only reached up to his ankles.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
‘The ideal invention would be a light polyester air-conditioned undergarment, enclosed around the neck, wrists and ankles and battery operated.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“But then I got lost. Baba tied these bells around my ankles so he could find me if that ever happened, but..She looked down at them. “I don’t think they work anymore.”
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
